would yield no Nourishment for there is a great difference between the Appetite and the Stomack Others their Appetites are so sharp and their Stomacks so weak as it digests not the third part of what it receives But he that loves Pleasure more than Health and Life let him follow Epicures and they that think the Severity of the Body is the way to Eternal Life let them turn Anchorets but they that think they may use all things that are lawfull without 2 prejudice to the Soul and would have Health and Life to use them long let them follow Observation and Moderation The Reason why one and the same Quantity of Physick shall purge some to Death and others it shall never move or at least not to that degree THE Reason is That one and the same Quality and Quantity of Purging Medicines works so different in several Bodies and at several Times in one and the same Body is caused by the Validity and Solidity of the Humour for the Bodies of Animals are like to several Grounds some Dusty and Dry some Stony and Hard some Tuff and Clammy as Clay some Muddy and Dirty others Washy and Wet which causeth Husbandmen to yoke more Oxen or Harness more Horses to adde Strength not onely when their Draughts are heavily laden but when the Waies are ill and uneasy to travel in for in some Waies ten Horses will not draw so easy as one in other Waies or in Winter as in Summer but are forced to whip and lash to tug and pull so are Bodies where Physick like Horses or Oxen doth pull and gripe the Guts to draw out clammy Flegm where in Light and Sanguine Bodies the Physick runs fast and the Humours follow easily or in Melancholy and Dry Waies where the Humour is so hard as the Physick rather beats upon it than penetrates or divides it and at last becomes Lame and Weak as Horses which are foundred but Cholerick Bodies are like Sandy Waies where the Humours like Dust fly about But there must be several sorts of Physick given to several Constitutions as Husbandmen sow several sorts of Grain as some Humours must be digged up with Penetrating Medicines other Humours plowed up with Fomenting Medicines some Humours harrowed with Extenuating Medicines others raked as with Drawing and Attractive Medicines some must be watered with Solable and Sucking Medicines others must be manured and nourished with fine Light-Meats and Gelly Broths others must be comforted with the hot Sun of Cordials Thus if Bodies be not husbanded according to the Nature Constitution of the Soyl they will never have a sufficient Stock of Health to pay Life their Land lord his Rent and Death will seize upon their Lease as forfeited to him before the Rent-day Of Purging Drugs ALL Purging Drugs have more of the penetrating or subdividing Quality than attractive or drawing for it is not the gathering together the Humours that casts forth or purgeth forth but the cutting or dividing them which loosens them and dissolves and the Cause of Fluxes in Bodies is that Nature hath bred a Drug in the Body which is a penetrating and subdividing Humour Of Opium Opium works upon the Spirits as Drugs do upon the Liver in the Body it is good in Feavers for in all Feavers the Spirits are like Wanton Bodies which run and play so much untill they have put themselves into a Fiery Heat But dull Opium corrects them like a grave Tutor wherefore Opium should be good for Mad-men moderately taken Of Animal Spirits THE Animal Spirits are the Radical Vapour in the Body produced from the Natural Heat and Radical Moysture but Obstruction which comes by Superfluity stops the Natural Heat hindring the Extenuating Faculty and Corruption which is caused by Superfluous Moysture and Unnatural Heat damps the Natural and drowns the Radical Moysture by which the Animal Spirits become weak This is the reason that those Diseases that come by Obstruction or Corrupted Humours make the Body faint and lazy and the Mind dull and melancholy Of Heat and Cold. HEat and Cold produce many times one and the same Effect for as Cold draws all Spirits inward so Heat thrusts all Spirits outwards for Cold is like a Hook to pull Heat inward and Heat like a Spear or a Staff to thrust outward As for example From Wine is distilled Aqua vitae or the like which are Spirits by the means of Fire and Wine in a Barrel if it be much frozen will cause all the Spirits in the Barrel to gather together in the midst and no Spirits are left in that which is frozen as likewise in extreme Fear all Spirits will be drawn to the Heart as the Center insomuch as all the rest of the Members will have none left to support them as they become useless and in great Heats the Spirits go to the Outward Parts and leave the Inward Parts so voyd as they become saint and exhausted for want of their help The Difference of Heat and Cold in the Spring and Autumn THE Face of the Earth is like the Hearth of a Chimney and the Sun as the Fire that lyeth thereon that is the reason that the Spring is not so warm as the Autumn or the Autumn so cold as the Spring because the Sun is not so hot in the Winter to heat the Earth as in the Summer for as the Hearth of a Chimney will require some time to be heated after the Fire is laid thereon so it will retain a Heat sometimes after the Fire is taken therefrom Likewise this is the reason that it is coldest just before the break of Day because at that time the Sun hath been longest absent for there is some Heat in the Night though but weak not but that the Night may be hot when the Day hath been cold but then that Heat proceeds rather from the Bowels of the Earth than the Beams of the Sun for though the Sun may have a Constant Heat yet his Beams have not as we may observe some Summer Daies are much colder than others for some Daies may be hotter when the Sun is Oblick than when it is Perpendicular over our Heads by reason that cold and moyst Vapours may arise from the Earth and as it were quench the Violent Heat in the Beams of the Sun and Wind may cool the Heat also or Clouds may obstruct the Heat as a Skreen set before the Fire yet neither Wind nor Vapour nor Clouds can alter the Heat inherent in the Sun c. Diseases curable and uncurable THere are some sorts of Dropsies that are caused by Obstruction and some sorts of Consumptions caused by Evil Digestion and so Diseases of all sorts that are curable but if any Vital Part be perished it is not Physick nor good Diet nor change of Air nor any Evacuation or Restoratives that can make that part whole again that is perished no not Nature it self for when her Work is finished she cannot mend it for if she makes
desire Power because they would be like to a God but Tyrants may be said to keep their Power by the sweat of their Brows 54. To keep the Common People in order they must be awed with Fear as well as nourished with Love or flattered with Hopes 55. What hopes can People have of a King to govern a Kingdome when he doth not reform his own Houshold but lets it run into Faction and Disorder 56. The Service to Kings is Allegiance 57. The Service to Nature is Self preservation 58. The Service to God is a Pure Life and Unfeigned Love 59. The Reward from Kings is Outward Honour 60. The Reward from Nature is Death 61. The Reward from God Eternal Life 62. Every one is afraid of Tyrannie that is under Subjection but when Tyrannie turns from it self to Clemency then Love comes where Fear was 63. The best way for Princes to keep up Authority is to make good Laws to distribute Justice to correct Vice to reward Virtue to countenance Industry to provide for the safety of Nation and People 64. A Man that suffers all Injuries is a Fool but to suffer some or to suffer a Moderation is Patience 65. For Patience is the way to Folly as Fury or Choler to Madness 66. To put up or pass by an Injury from those that have power seems to proceed from Fear but to pass by an Injury from the powerless seems Heroick 67. Of all Virtues Patience hath the fewest Passions mixt with it and though it seems unsensible yet it seeth clearly into its own Misfortunes for Patience belongs to the Misfortunes that concern a Mans self 68. Yet Patience should not be a Bawd to a Mans ruine 69. There is none can be so patient as those that have suffered much 70. The Designs of Hate are easier followed and oftner practiced than of Love for one may easier take Revenge of a Foe than deliver Life and Liberty to a Friend 71. There is none so apt to revenge as those that have been forgiven 72. There is none so sorrowfull as those that want Means and Waies to make Satisfaction 73. Many times Guiltiness is more confident than Innocency 74. There is as much difference betwixt Pleasure and Joy as Sorrow and Melancholy for one disorders the Spirits the other composes them An overplus of Joy is like those that are drunk for it makes the Head of Reason dissy There are many sorts of Melancholy but Love-Melancholy makes them cry out O Pleasing Pain and Happy Misery 75. There is a fix'd Grief and a moving Grief the one hath neither Sighs nor Tears but seems as a Marble Pillar the other breaks into Complaint and pours it self forth in Showers of Tears Yet there are many sorts of Tears for there are Tears of Joy and there are Tears of Sorrow and Tears of Anger Tears of Pity and of Mirth and in all Passions Tears are apt to flow especially from moyst Brains But deep Sorrow hath dry Eyes silent Tongues and aking Hearts 76. When the Spirits are wearied with Grief they fall into a Melancholy Weeping and then are setled with a compliance to time 77. Passion will rise in the defence of Honour and the Tongue will display the Passion 78. For all we call Love is Friendship which is begot by agreeable Humours or received Curtesies or a Resemblance of Parts which is alterable but there can be no true Love but upon the unalterable God 79. There are waies to perfect Love but no Body can arrive to the Journeys end untill they come to Heaven because there is no Perfection in this World and there can be no perfect Love but upon a perfect Object 80. They that love much can never be Happy for the Torment of what Evil may come to that they love takes away the sweetness of what they enjoy Thus the fear of Losing is more unequal than the pleasure of Enjoyment 81. The Root of Love is like a Rock which stands against all Storms but Wantonness is like the Root of a Flower that every Worm may eat thorow 82. Envious Persons and Lovers are the greatest Flatterers the one flatters to hide his Envy the other to please the Beloved 83. Those Affections are strongest that Nature and Education have linkt together not onely by Birth but by Conversation for as Birth most commonly gives a likeness of parts so Conversation breeds a resemblance in humours and dispositions the one begets a likeness in Body the other of Minds or Souls 84. There is no Sound strikes the Ears so hard as the report of Death especially when Affection opens the Dore and lets the Messenger down into the Heart 85. True Love is an Affection which is very difficult to settle and hard to remove when once placed 86. To move Passion rather belongs to the Orator than the Poet for a Poet is a Creator of Fancy and Poetry rather makes than perswades But indeed that which moves Passion most is rather by Sound than Sense witness Musick which is the greatest Mover of Passion Thus Musick moves Passion more than Reason but Poetry is rather to delight the Wit than perswade the Reason 87. There is as much difference in Wit as there is in Pictures for every Picture is not drawn by Apelles and as some Painters are but for Sign-posts so some Wits are onely fit for Ballads 88. One and the same Tale told by several Persons makes great difference in the Affections of the Hearers 89. A witty Description in Discourse paints a lively Description in the Mind 90. A Translator acts the Person of an Author where most commonly the Author is represented to his advantage 91. There are a greater number that write more wisely and learnedly than delightfully 92. Thoughts when they run too fast or are prest too hard may destroy the Body by the distempering of the Mind 93. To have a Fixt Thought is to draw the Imaginations to a point 94. Though the Understanding be clear yet the Utterance may be instructed if the Tongue be not filed with the Motion to make all run smooth and even 95. Some have more Words than Wit and more Wit then Judgement 96. And others have more Years than Experience and more Experience than Honesty 97. Some have more Law than Policy 98. Some have more Ambition than Power and more Power than Justice 99. Secret Meetings Soft Whisperings or Dumb Shews have most commonly evil Designes 100. The dark Minds of Men are deceitfull 101. It were base for a Man or Woman to lay a Blemish upon those that have given them an honorable Reputation 102. Many that wish their Enemies Confusion yet would not betray them to it 103. I had rather hear what my Enemy can say against me than what my Enemy can say for me for there are none so good but may have some Faults which their Enemy is more apt to find out than their Friends much less themselves 104. Those persons that are railed at seem Nobler than those
neither will they take any example to avoyd either Inconvenience or Danger they run blindfold into all Actions and as the Proverb saith They leap before they look and stumble at Straws and either they so trouble themselves with what may come as they never enjoy the present or they consider the future time so little as they are destroyed before they are aware But as Fools make all things worse than they are in not giving them the right use so Wise Men prevent Evils by their foresight mend what is bad shun Danger and what cannot be avoyded they bear with Patience I have heard say that the World is as one great Fool in which say some the Wise though there be very few are buried in the Rubbish of Fools without Monuments But that saying is both foolish and unjust as to Condemn all because there is Folly in the most But Envy and Malice may bark yet they cannot bite therefore the Wise live in Renown when Fools shall be scattered as Dust before the Wind. The Busy Fool is one that had rather break his head at his Neighbours door than keep it whole at home he strives to decide all petty Quarrels wherein he is sure to get the hatred of one side if not both he is the Hackney for News lading himself at the Posthouse and disburthening himself to all he meets he is more concerned with a forein Embassador though he hath no use of him than the Embassador is with his Embassages he never faileth Sessions and Assizes nor Executions he riseth early he eats hastily walks fast goeth to Bed late and his Thoughts beat quicker than a Feaverish Pulse full of vain Designs offers his service to all although he is not able to do any he strives to know all things and takes not time to learn any thing he makes himself his greatest Enemy The Vain-glorious Fool is one that sets himself to the most publick view and if he hath any Estate he spends it in vain Entertainment he seems to despise those things he covets most he reads his Letters in the Streets as he rides or walks to have the People think he is a Man of great business although they be Letters of his own writing he makes his Horse pranse at a fair Ladies door or walks by and looks up often as if he had some Interest there when the Lady knows him not or would despise him if she did When any one visits him he calls for his Servant asking where his people are complains they are never at home to wait when the most he hath is but a Lacquey and a Groom Sometimes he will pull out his Handkerchief as for use and two or three pieces of Gold shall come forth with it and scatter on the Ground as if his Pockets were full when he laid those Pieces there of purpose and when he reads a Letter of News that he hath borrowed he will take out as many more as will sill a Bag that he may be thought a man of great business He is like Alchimy that makes a great shew but hath little worth The Exceptious Fool is one that thinks that all which is said or was meant is against him he hates whispering or laughing in any besides himself and is jealous of all men he is as a Troubled Water where no Beast will drink The Cautious Fool is alwaies considering but never resolving The Credulous and Incredulous the one believes against all Reason the other will believe no Reason at all The Facile Fool can deny nothing he will promise that he knows not how to perform he followeth not Good because it is best nor shuns Evil because it is worst for he followeth as Perswasion leads not as Reason guides The Inconstant Fool is one shuns all things which he knows he will be a Friend to death for a day and the next as great an Enemy he hath no settlement neither for his Soul Body nor Estate he hath more several Colours than the Camelion and more Shapes than Proteus he is as a Labyrinth where none can find a sure way The Impertinent Fool is alwaies asking such questions as cannot be resolved offers his service where there is no occasion or use of it requesting those things that cannot be granted so as he will neither by denyed resolved nor counselled The Prodigal Fool is like a weak Stomack that whatsoever it receives it casts forth which makes his Purse like his Body to dye of a Consumption The Extravagant is like the Prodigal onely his way is more various The Kind Fond and Tender-hearted Fool is one that will promise or part with any thing that he hath for the present but repents himself as soon as he hath done he embraceth all things but flings them away before he knoweth what he had his Heart is softned with sudden pity but is hardned with little time so that it is variety of Objects that makes that Passion work The Affected Fool is one that speaks alwaies in phrases and proportions the distance of Time between his words his Countenance and his Discourses with several postures of his Face and his Hand are like the Vane or Weather-cock of a House which is alwaies in motion and for its Garb it is either so loose as if there were a solution of his Joynts or else so stiff as if he had no Joynts at all he neither eats drinks sits walks speaks sleeps or any Natural Act but he doth it in a particular and Artificial form The Fantastical Fool is wedded to strange singularities Men ought not to strive for Superiority with Women HEE is either a Fool or a Coward that strives for the preheminency with a Woman a Coward because he domineers over Weakness a Fool to dispute with Ignorance For Men should use Women as Nurses do Children strive to please and yield to them in all things but what will do them harm As not to suffer them to degrade themselves of their Honours by their Wantonnes or to spend their Estate by heir Vanity or destroy their Health by their ill orders but strive to delight them giving them Liberty in all Honourable and Honest Recreations in moderate Expences and harmless Vanities But he that strives with his Wife to win the Breeches would have never had the wit to have fought the Battels of Caesar. For a Gallant Man will never strive for the Breeches with his Wife but present her with the whole Suit as Doublet Breeches and Cloak and all the Appurtenances thereunto and leave himself onely his Sword to protect her It is more honour for a Man to be led Captive by a Woman than to contend by resistance for a Man can receive no dishonour to be taken Prisoner by the Effeminat Sex for where a Gallant Man strives to beat off other Shackles with Courage to overpower it yet he willingly yields to the Effeminat Bands and takes them as Wreaths of Flowers rather than Chains of Slavery But the pure true Gentry comes
abroad whereof they have better at home and the unsatiable Desire of Mankind makes them search for what is never to be found But where Nature gives a Satisfactory Mind she gives a Happy Life and what can we imagin the Joys of Heaven but a stint to our wandring Desires therefore those that are most fixt are nearer Heaven and he is the Wisest that is nearest to Unity and those that are most united are likest to a God But where Discord happens Hell is resemb'ed and harsh haughty and not insulting Natures are composed like Devils and Caesar shewed himself a Fool in nothing but in quitting his Guard and not hearkning to his Wife which was to shew his Courage and to let the World see he durst go unarmed singly alone as it were and his freedom from the chains of fond Affection thus quitting Prudence and Love he dyed too violent a Death And Seianus quitting the Affection towards his Wife and placing it upon Julian raised such a Jealousie in Tyberius as it cost him his Life otherwise he might have ruled the Empire and so the most part of the World Thus Anthony's leaving his Wife for the love of Cleopatra lost him the third part of the World Neither are the Counsels of a Wife alwaies to be despised if all were honest nor to be lockt from the private Affairs of her Husband Portia was able to keep a Secret and was of Brutus her Husbands Confedenacy though not Actually yet Concealing And if Caesar had condescended to his Wives Perswasion he had not gone to the Senate that day and who knows but the next might have discovered the Conspiracy and numberless of the like Examples might be given Besides it is to be observed where the Husband and Wife disagree their Family is in disorder their Estates go to decay Jealousies arise which cause Discords from whence proceeds a discontented and unhappy Life And where the Husband and Wife are united in Minds as well as in Body all prospers and most commonly Ease and Plenty crown that Family Industry is their Recreation Peace is their Joy Love is their Happiness for a kind Husband makes an obedient Wife dutifull Children faithfull Servants for a Wise Man rules his Family with gentle kind and seasonable Perswasions with honest and sincere Actions with gratefull and just Rewards and Kindness and Constant Natures work hard and obeisant Natures to be more pliant and facile for Kindness melts hardest Hearts and makes them flexible to form them as they please where Cruelty or Severity hardens them so much as they will rather break than bend And if the Rational part of the World would but consider what Felicity there is in peacefull Prosperity they would never wander so much out of the way Of Men and Women SOme say a Man is a Nobler Creature than a Woman because our Saviour took upon him the Body of Man and another that Man was made first But these two Reasons are weak for the Holy Spirit took upon him the shape of a Dove which Creature is of less esteem than Mankind and for the Preheminency in Creation the Devil was made before Man Nature in the Composure of Men and Women IT is not so great a Fault in Nature for a Woman to be Masculine as for a Man to be Effeminat for it is a Defect in Nature to decline as to see Men like Women but to see a Masculine Woman is but onely as if Nature had mistook and had placed a Mans Spirit in a Womans Body but Nature hath both her Mistakes and Weaknesses but when she works perfectly she gives Man a gentle and sweet Disposition a generous Mind a valiant Heart a wife Head a voluble Tongue a healthfull Body and strong and active Limbs To Woman she gives a chast Mind a sober Disposition a silent Tongue a fair and modest Face a neat Shape and a gracefull Motion The Nature of Man MAN is more apt to take Dislikes at all things than to delight in any thing but Nature hath given us no Pleasure but what ends in Pain for the end of Pleasure is Grief for Cruel Nature curbs us in with Fear and yet spurs us on with Desires for she hath made Mans mind to hunt more after Varieties by Desire than she hath made Varieties to satisfie the Desires Of Painting THere be some that condemn the Art of Painting in Women others that defend it for say they as Nature hath made one World so Art another and that Art is become the Mistris of Nature neither is it against Nature to help the Defects Besides those that find out new Arts are esteemed so that they become as Petty Gods whether they become Advantageous to Man or no as the Memory of those that found out the Art of Gunpowder Guns Swords and all Engins of War for Mischief and shall they be more praised and commended than those that find out Arts and Adornments as Painting Curling and other Dressings for the one destroyes Mankind this increaseth it the one brings Love the other begets Hate But some will say those Arts defend their Lives but where they once use them to defend their Lives they use them ten times to destroy Life and though it is no Fault in the Inventer but in the User no more is Painting when it is used for a good intent as to keep or increase lawfull Affection But say they it is a dissembling to make that appear otherwise than it is ' Tisanswer'd No more than to keep warm in Winter for Cold is Natural so is the sense of it in Winter but Clothes to keep it out are Artificial and the true use of the Art of Painting is to keep warm a Lawfull Affection Besides If we must use no more than what Nature hath given us we must go naked and those that have a bald Head must not wear a Peruick or Cap to cover it and those that are born with one Leg shorter than the other must not wear a high Shoe to make them even nor indeed wear any Shoes at all especially with Heels because they make them seem higher but go with the Feet bare and those that are Crooked must wear no Bombast and many such Examples may be brought But say some it is a Bawd to entice in begetting evil Desires It is answered No more a Bawd than Nature is in making a handsome Creature but if they must do nothing for fear of Enticing then Mankind must neither cut their Hair nor pare their Nails nor shave their Beards nor wash their selves which would be very slovenly for fear they should appear so handsome as they may perswade and entice the Lookers on to evil Desires which if so let them be like Swine and wallow in Mire but it is to be feared that the Mire will be too hard for the evil Desires so as there may be more brought in defence of Painting than can be said against it Wherefore say they it is lawfull both in Maids and
not so much the Wisdome of Henry the Seventh that gave him the Crown as his Good Fortune in having a Tyrant Opposer on which the Peoples fear was above their feeling for they did apprehend more Tyrannie than they found in the time that Richard did reign for he made more good Laws in the time of his Reign than had been made in the Reign of many Kings before or after him But the Peoples mistrust cannot be satisfied with any Act let it be never so just or profitable but by their absence which they never think far enough untill they go to the Shades of Death and many times that which they believe will prove the best for them proves the worst because they follow not Reason but Will For Henry the Seventh whom they thought to be most happy under proved but a Tyrant in his Acts although a Saint in his Words for he brought by the means of Projecting and Informing Knaves the greatest or indeed all Estates to be Forfeited and so to be Compounded for by which he raised great Sums of Money to the ruining of many Antient Families yet he reigned peaceably most part of all his time which many a better and juster Prince had not the fortune to do Of the Emperors MOST commonly it may be said of Kings or Governors as they say of March It comes in like a Lion it goeth out like a Lamb and when it comes in like a Lamb it goeth out like a lion But when a Man desires to raise an Empire or himself to be an Emperor he flatters the People but when he is once become Emperor he makes the People flatter him Caesar might have proved a good Emperor but he had not time to be an ill one Augustus Caesar was a wise Prince he knew there was no way to settle the new-born Empire and to enjoy it peaceably but by gaining the Love of the People not by the base servile way of Flattery but by executing Justice and making wise and good Laws Tiberius was a good Prince whilst the memory of Augustus lasted in the Minds of the People and a wise Prince that he could dissemble his Humour so well and so long and none was so fit as Ascianus to bring him to bed of his great belly'd Cruelty Tiberius was of a lazy disposition as we may know by his solitary and luxurious life Nero came too soon to the Empire to reign well Vanities the Rulers of Youth despise Prudence and Temperance the Companions of Age his Vanities bred Vices his Vices bred Fear Fear bred Jealousie Jealousie bred Tyrannie Tyrannie bred Conspiracy and Conspiracy Destruction in brief he had not Age enough to poyse him he killed himself more out of Fear than Courage Both the Neroes the Uncles and the Cosen were much of a humour Nero Germanicus his Son he was Proud Cowardly Effeminat Envious Vainglorious Covetous to get Prodigal to spend Cruel without Craft and Mad he was not wise enough to rule his Empire nor temperate enough to govern his Vanities nor couragious enough to dissemble his Fears or be a good Prince As for Claudius the Emperour he was more learned than wise and he had more good Nature than Constancy and whatsoever ill he did he was seduced to do it by those he loved True it is he was of an easy Disposition but that proceeds more from a good Disposition in Nature than an evil one and it rather comes from Love than Hate although the Effects be all one for he that is easily perswaded and suddenly believes commits more Cruelty by his Credulity than distributes Justice by his good Nature As for Galba he had too narrow a Soul for so great an Empire for the Vices of Age and Covetousness had got hold of him he was Old and Crazy he had no Generosity to entice nor Sweet Behaviour to win nor Oratory to perswade nor Industry to order nor Faith to perform and whatsoever Man hath these Faults must needs get more Enemies than Friends As for Otho he had not Patience to try his Fortune neither lived he so long as any one could judge of his Government he was better beloved of his Souldiers than fortunate in their Successes besides he was beloved more of the People after he was dead than when he was living but whether he killed himself for the grief of those Souldiers that were lost or fear of the loss of the rest or for fear of himself it is doubtfull Vitelius was cruel gluttonous and of an unworthy nature For Vespasian he was very greedy of Gain to the height of Covetousness and yet he was very Generous for whatsoever he got though ill yet he bestowed it well he was a very mercifull Prince and very few Faults to be found in him He sprung from a Family of no great growth Titus Flavius Son to Vespasian he was so good there cannot enough be said in praise of him he was a Wise Prince and a Just Prince a Mercifull Prince and a Loving Temperate Carefull and Religious Prince he seemed to have more Goodness in him than were waies or means to express it he was Valiant Learned Mild Patient Industrious Skilfull in all Arts and Majestical Flavius Domitianus was Cruel and Vainglorious he followed not the steps of his Father nor Brother I observe Ill-born Natures cannot be bettered by Good Examples nor warned by Ill Examples for all the Cruel Emperors came to Untimely Deaths Of Pompey with Caesar. SOme praise Pompey and say He was a faithfull and loving Citizen of Rome a Father in defending the Laws and Liberties and a Martyr in dying in the Cause Others dispraise him and say It was Envy to Caesar that brought him out against him more than for the Publick Good and that if Pompey had had but the same Fortune he would have taken upon him the same Command Others again praise Caesar and say that he was forced to use his Power and Arms against the Senate out of necessity the one being much in Debt having exhausted his Estate the other in defence of his Life knowing the Senate would accuse him instead of rewarding him for his good Service and that Rational Men may judge by the succession of Story that he was necessitated and that Fortune being on his side gave him greater Hopes and higher Designs which he thought not at first on and that he had Reason though he had not been necessitated for though the Roman Government began from a Low and Mean Beginning yet it came to be the most Powerfull and Famous whilst Mediocrity ruled amongst them for at first their Poverty made them Just not daring to do Wrong and Prudent in providing the best waies and means to keep and raise themselves and Valiant and Industrious to defend themselves and to increase their Dominions Thus Virtues begot their Strength and raised their Fame But their good Fortune brought Plenty and Plenty Pride the one runs into Luxury the other into Ambition and Ambition begot Factions
Corruption But there is a Natural Heat and Moysture which produceth Legitimate Issues and there is also an Adulterate Heat and Moysture from whence proceed Bastardly Diseases which are as Numerous as Natural Children Of Feavers in the Blood BUT in Feavers where onely the Heat causeth the Blood to boyl and so to become scalding hot when the Feaver is taken away that is when the bitter and sharp Humours are cast out of the Body by some Evacuation or that the Fire is quenched out with some cooling Julips the Blood will be the same again without any alteration as Water is onely in the boyling the Blood may wast and evaporate forth of the Body through the Pores as Water doth forth of the Vessel it is boyling in But if the Blood be corrupted or mix'd with Humours as Water is often with Mud there is no way but letting it forth drawing it out of the Veins that the Heart and the Liver as the Springs may send in more which may be Fresh and Clear into the Veins again unless those Springs be corrupted and then there is no Remedy for then Death will alter the Course of Life in that Body Sleeping and Waking SLeeping and Waking are the flowing and ebbing of Vapour for when Vapour flows to the Extreme Parts it causeth Sleep as it were for a time Or filling up all the Outward Senses as Water doth a Pipe or a Vessel or as Wind doth a Bladder where nothing can be received therein untill they be empty so no Outward Objects can enter in at the Five Senses untill the Vapour wherewith they are filled be dispers'd or falling back by contracting into a Lesser Compass which when they are contracted or dispers'd they wake so that Vapour in the Body is as necessary for Life as Food And indeed Food is the chief Cause of Vapour for Heat and Moysture make Vapour and like as Food received into the Body doth either distemper or nourish it so doth Vapour that slows in the Body make Sleep sound and easy or trouble some and unquiet for Malignant and Corrupted Vapours are like Malignant and Corrupted Humours for as Malignant Humours cause the Body to be sick or painfull so Malignant Vapours cause Sleeps to be full of Dreams Startlings and often Wakings though many times Dreams are caused by Rarified Vapours like a Wind which blows upon the Brain causing many Motions therein or rather furrows the Grosser Vapours causing them to role in Billows and Waves hindring them from flowing easy and smooth which Tempestuous Winds beat the Vapours backward as it were or drive them from the utmost Extent which hinders the Senses from being thorowly fill'd which causeth not so sound Sleeps for when the Senses are not fill'd the Vapours are like Water in a Vessel not half full which when it is quite full there is little or no Motion though the Vessel be moved the Water stirs not much but when it is but half full or three parts when the Vessel is stirred it flashes and sprinkles about Of not Sleeping in Feavers THE reason those that are in great Feavers or the like hot Disease cannot sleep is that the Heat being too strong for the Moysture it rarifies it so thin as it is like the forementioned Wind which instead of stopping causeth Waking Dreams that is Frantick Fancies for there is as Natural a Degree of this Vapour as there is a Natural Temper proper to every Animal Body Or else it burns the Body and dryes up the Natural Moysture so much as there can arise no Vapour therefrom for it is to be observed that the dryest Constitution sleeps the least and those sleeps they have are short One and the same Cause differs in the same Effect of Sleep SOme and the same things or Acts will cause Sleep or put by Sleep as for the Passions sometimes Grief Joy Anger and the like will cause Sleep othertimes hinder it the reason is according as the Passions work inwards or extend outwards for when the Passions settle or move most inwards they draw all the Vapours backwards and when they flow outwards they carry Vapours with them and as Passions many times carry out Vapours so Vapours many times carry out Passions as we may observe by the Effects as Sighing Groaning and Weeping as Railing Threatning Cursing Fighting Laughing Hooping Hollowing Praising Singing and Dancing which are all Exteriour Motions But where they work inward the Heart beats or works and the Brain thinks stronglyer than the Natural Constitution requires which Motion causeth Unnatural Heat which drinks up the Vapours or else the Brain or the Heart are so strongly bound to an Object and holding as it were so fast thereon as it draws all the Powers of Life to assist therein This causeth Deep Musing Heart-griping fix'd Eyes and slow Pulses which draws the Vapours so much inward as almost extinguisheth the Fire of Life and smothers the Understanding starves the Body and makes the Senses unusefull and many times the Slow Motions congeal the Vapours like Ice making them unapt to slow As for Exteriour Action much Labour or Exercise causeth them to flow or produceth Sleep to those that have Gross Bodies and too Thick Vapours for the Vapours may be too Thick as well as too Thin for the use of Rest in these Bodies and Constitutions much exerciseth and rarifieth the Vapours to such a Degree as makes a General Aptness to flow to the Extreme Parts wherewith the Senses are stopp'd as being full which otherwise would not be so apt to slow but to Lean Bodies and Dry Constitutions much Labour and Exercise either contracts the Vapour into so Gross a Body as it cannot slow or rarifies that little Vapour they have so thin as it evaporates out by Insensible Inspirations or the Unnatural Drought and Heat drinks it up so as there is no Vapour to fill the Senses to a Repose Of Agues AGues are half Sisters to Feavers which are like Fuel half dry set on Fire by Accidental Motions and not kindled by a Natural Course This Fuel half dry is Humour half concocted the other part raw and undigested which is like Hay or the like not dryed enough by the Sun so Digestion wants Natural Heat to dry which is to concoct the Superfluous Moysture for when the Moysture is too much for the Heat although it be not sufficient to quench it out yet it doth damp and smother in the Heat staying the Quickness of the Motion blunting the Edge and Sharpness allaying the Penetrating Faculty and the Heat being not strong enough to drink up the Superfluous Moysture at once but onely hath so much strength as to rarify it into Vapour which Vapour is Smoke which Smoke is thinner and thicker according to the quantity and quality of the Moysture or as the Heat and Moysture doth predominate for when the Heat is Master the Vapour is so thin as it flashes into a Flame as Lightning from a Cloud which is an Intermixing Feaver